Once his external incarnation establishes a foothold in the Eastern Extremity Domain,
builds a solid foundation of his own there, and opens up the market in that region,
Ye Qingxuan will be able to take his first step beyond the Xuantian Sect.
Using the realm gate condensed from the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Paradise, he can shape the prototype of his own commercial platform and secretly conduct cross-domain trade.
At that time, he will undoubtedly reap enormous benefits once again.
The only thing to keep in mind is that, outside the Xuantian Sect, he will have to rely solely on himself.
Without sufficient strength, he will inevitably fail to protect gains that exceed his actual capabilities.
So he will need to proceed slowly and cautiously, building up enough power in secret before making any moves.
In the outside world, strength and backing are the keys to development.
His external incarnation has no background, so he can only depend on his own abilities.
If he were in the five inner domains of the Earthly Mystery Realm, Ye Qingxuan’s current strength would leave him constrained and restricted.
But in the Eastern Extremity Domain, one of the four outer domains, he doesn’t need to worry as much.
That’s precisely why he chose the Eastern Extremity Domain as his starting point for development.
In the Eastern Extremity Domain, he has many hidden trump cards prepared.
His external incarnation’s apparent combat power is only at the Spirit Transformation stage—the upper limit of that domain. As long as he doesn’t go overboard, protecting himself in the early stages shouldn’t be too difficult.
After lying low for a while, laying a solid foundation, and raising his own strength, that will be the moment when his commercial empire expands rapidly.
Of course, this will inevitably take a considerable amount of time.
Three months later,
Ye Qingxuan sold another five hundred fourth-grade Purifying Spirit Trees, exchanging them for four third-grade Spirit Vein Sources and five second-grade Spirit Vein Sources.
After he integrated these nine Spirit Vein Sources into the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Paradise and catalyzed them into spirit veins,
the entire Qingxuan Cave Heaven Paradise now boasts:
a total of sixteen third-grade spirit veins, twenty-two second-grade spirit veins, and twenty-two first-grade spirit veins.
The extra two first-grade spirit veins were naturally evolved and derived within the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Paradise over the years.
With the support and assistance of these spirit veins, the speed at which the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Paradise accumulates and converts its fundamental essence has once again surged dramatically.
In Ye Qingxuan’s perception, the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Paradise will need about two more years to reach the peak of the second grade.
At that point, it can break through to the third-grade Cave Heaven Paradise level in one go.
Ye Qingxuan doesn’t plan to stay idle during these two years.
He intends to select a divine ability with a sealing or suppressing effect from the Earth Immortal inheritance to cultivate.
After going through the experience with his explorer incarnation, Ye Qingxuan has deeply felt just how perilous the struggle for immortality can be—one moment of carelessness, and you could capsize and fall.
So he wants to cultivate another divine ability with suppression effects to broaden his methods against enemies.
As for other divine abilities—those with overlapping effects—cultivating them wouldn’t be of much use.
His current cultivation level is still too low, and among the divine abilities that allow him to condense a divine ability seed at the Golden Core stage, not many are particularly powerful.
After browsing for a while, Ye Qingxuan chose a minor divine ability called Suppress the Realm.
Minor Divine Ability · Suppress the Realm: It can seal the space within a realm, imprison cultivators, and prevent them from using spatial escape techniques.
Of course, nothing is absolute.
The specific effect of the ability depends on the cultivator’s cultivation level, as well as the target’s cultivation and methods, among other factors.
If he relies solely on the divine ability seed of Suppress the Realm, Ye Qingxuan can only temporarily suppress enemies of the same cultivation level for now.
The exact duration of suppression varies from person to person, since everyone has different techniques and trump cards.
But if paired with its matching magic treasure—the Suppress the Realm Pagoda—Ye Qingxuan can then cross cultivation levels to suppress most early-stage Nascent Soul cultivators.
The Suppress the Realm Pagoda will still serve as an excellent auxiliary tool even later on, when Ye Qingxuan’s divine ability seed evolves into a true minor divine ability.
The Earth Immortal inheritance contains refining methods for Suppress the Realm Pagodas at various levels.
The lowest tier is a lower-grade spirit artifact-level Suppress the Realm Pagoda.
The highest tier, within the inheritance below the Immortal realm, is a top-grade spirit treasure-level Suppress the Realm Pagoda.
Once Ye Qingxuan cultivates the minor divine ability Suppress the Realm to the perfected level, and pairs it with a top-grade spirit treasure-level Suppress the Realm Pagoda, it will be more than enough to easily suppress most Mahayana-stage cultivators.
For now, though, Ye Qingxuan is only condensing the divine ability seed for the minor divine ability, and the lowest-tier lower-grade spirit artifact will suffice.
It’s not that he can’t refine a medium-grade spirit artifact.
Rather, given his current cultivation, even activating a lower-grade spirit artifact is already quite taxing.
If he used a medium-grade spirit artifact-level Suppress the Realm Pagoda, his spiritual energy would likely be depleted after just one or two uses.
So even after condensing the divine ability seed for Suppress the Realm and refining a lower-grade spirit artifact pagoda, Ye Qingxuan won’t give it to his Purple Mansion-stage incarnations.
At the very least, it will have to be a Golden Core-stage incarnation.
For now, only his external incarnation, Gui Xuanzi, can reserve a spot for a lower-grade spirit artifact Suppress the Realm Pagoda.
As for his explorer incarnation, which he hasn’t re-condensed yet—that will depend on how generous the origin feedback is when the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Paradise advances to the third-grade Cave Heaven Paradise level.
If this origin feedback can raise his cultivation to the late Golden Core stage, then his re-condensed explorer incarnation will smoothly reach the Golden Core level.
But if the feedback only pushes him to the mid-Golden Core stage, then it might be a bit iffy whether his new incarnation can even reach the threshold of Golden Core.
To successfully refine a Suppress the Realm Pagoda below the spirit treasure level, aside from various spirit ore auxiliary materials, the most crucial component is Realm-Settling Stones.
He already has all the various spirit ore auxiliaries in stock.
As for Realm-Settling Stones, they are a special fifth-grade heavenly material and earthly treasure, mainly used as the primary material for refining teleportation arrays.
The more Realm-Settling Stones used, the more stable the teleportation array becomes, and the farther it can transmit.
As for cross-domain teleportation arrays, they require not just Realm-Settling Stones, but also large quantities of seventh-grade Realm-Suppressing Stones, along with a single tenth-grade Realm-Breaking Stone.
For a spirit artifact-level Suppress the Realm Pagoda, all he needs is to extract the essence of the Realm-Settling Stones and integrate it into the pagoda to raise its grade.
For a spirit treasure-level Suppress the Realm Pagoda, each minor tier of refinement requires the sequential use of seventh-grade Realm-Suppressing Stones, eighth-grade Realm-Suppressing Tablets, ninth-grade Realm-Expanding Stones, and World Fragments.
The eighth-grade Realm-Suppressing Tablets are made by inscribing eighth-grade realm-suppressing formations onto Realm-Suppressing Stones.
The heavenly materials and earthly treasures used in the later stages of the pagoda—seventh-grade Realm-Suppressing Stones, ninth-grade Realm-Expanding Stones, and World Fragments—
are actually also key materials that can accelerate the advancement of a Cave Heaven Paradise.
Unfortunately, these materials are rare and hard to come by, and even if they do appear, Ye Qingxuan’s current financial resources can’t afford them.
Otherwise, a single seventh-grade Realm-Suppressing Stone would have already pushed the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Paradise to the third grade long ago.
Why would he need to spend all this time waiting so slowly?
For the lower-grade spirit artifact-level Suppress the Realm Pagoda, he needs fifth-grade Realm-Settling Stones, which he doesn’t have at the moment.
But Ye Qingxuan isn’t in a rush—fifth-grade Realm-Settling Stones are a common material for teleportation arrays and are not in short supply in the Xuantian Sect’s market.
He plans to refine three spirit artifact-level Suppress the Realm Pagodas, which won’t require too many Realm-Settling Stones for now.
But later, as his cultivation rises and he needs to upgrade the pagoda’s grade, he will consume quite a lot of Realm-Settling Stones.
So Ye Qingxuan sends a message to Zhu Dafu directly, asking him to acquire Realm-Settling Stones, with a target of ten thousand cubic units for now.
As for himself, he begins secluded cultivation to comprehend the minor divine ability Suppress the Realm and condense its divine ability seed.
Once the divine ability seed for Suppress the Realm is successfully condensed, he will have Ye Zhaoheng bring back the acquired Realm-Settling Stones.
Then it won’t be too late to refine the Suppress the Realm Pagoda.
